RHEL 9 : rsync (RHSA-2025:7050)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235800

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for rsync.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:7050 advisory.

The rsync utility enables the users to copy and synchronize files locally or across a network.
Synchronization with rsync is fast because rsync only sends the differences in files over the network instead of sending whole files. The rsync utility is also used as a mirroring tool.

Security Fix(es):

* rsync: Path traversal vulnerability in rsync (CVE-2024-12087)

* rsync: --safe-links option bypass leads to path traversal (CVE-2024-12088)

* rsync: Race Condition in rsync Handling Symbolic Links (CVE-2024-12747)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL rsync package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:7050.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235800

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-7050.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/13/2025

Updated: 5/13/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-12088

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsync-rrsync, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsync, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:rsync-daemon, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-12087, CVE-2024-12088, CVE-2024-12747

CWE: 35, 362

RHSA: 2025:7050

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